The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-25
COMMENT AND OPINION.

IF this thing Keeps up American labor will
soon demand tariff on Observation-Disclosures
phia Inquirer.
1T is quite evident that systematic effort is
being made to initiate second term boom.-Ma-
con Telegraph (Dem
Texas is making strong fight for prohibition.
They know the value of water in the Lone Star
State. -Philadephia Inquirer.
THERE can be no doubt that the movement of
political opinion in the Republican party is from
Blaine to Sherman.--Portland Oregonian, Ind.
Rep.
The saying that all the world loves lover
does not apply to the lover who gets left For
further information see the case of Jones versus
the Legislature of Florida. -Philadelphia Times.
EVEN that Jealous exponent of English ideas,
the New York Evening Post, has begun to find
fault with Mr.. Cleveland. This excites suspicion
that Mr. Cleveland is berraying symptoms of
Americanism.- Press.
THE statement that Mr.. Cleveland is saving
thrse-fifths of his salary is encouraging. A man
like Mr.. Cleveland never gets into an Office like
his present one but once in lifetime, and he
should make the most of it.-Philadephia Press.
IT is perfectly absurd to call Mr. Jones' of De-
trolt, q dark horse In the Florida senatorial con-
test. There is certain animal with longer ears
than horses which he resembles more closely.
-Pittsburg Chronicle.
THE Eagle renews the advice it has heretofore
given the knights-get rid of your crack Drained
places
with men who by their wisdom and moderation.
will make your cause the cause of all right
thinking men.-Brooklyn Eagle
If the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company cuts
down the rates of its through freight % per
cent or so below the rates which our American
companies require, it will put the interstate
commerce bill to pretty severe test, and may
furnish an excuse to the National Railway Com
missoners to make to these transcontinental
companies the concessions they are now demand
ing.-Boston Herald
No other power in the land can support such
force OF heightened and high-priced lobbyists
and retalners in State capitols and around city
councils as railway corporations. 1t would be
hard to tell what railroads cannot afford to do in
the matter of reducing freight rates if their
stock was unwatered and their entire business
had always been conducted on fair and reason
able rules st Louis Republican.
WHEN American workingmen have fallen so
far below the standard of American citizenship
as to give over their brthright Of freedom, and
their right to seek labor, into the hands of other
men, Intelligent or unintellieent, honest or
tricky, they have reiinquished all title to the
name of free men, and deserve to be despsed
for what they have made themselves-saves
and nothing else.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
CONGRESS considered the question of cost and
intended the law for the protection OF the fisher
men. The President and Mr.. Bayard are guilty
of making the impudent assumption that Con-
gress didn't intend the consequence of its acts
If they will do their duty and obey the law
fhere will not indeed be a new commission or a
new treaty. but there will be speedy settlement
of the controversy in favor of the United States
New York Mail and Express
THE worst kind of moral reformers are they
who give their minds to conceptions of the ut
most possibilities of evil association of ideas
from things in which others nothing of evil,
and then impute this to others, and make out
society to be indelicate. immodest, impure and
unholy, in order to establish their own deicacy,
modesty, purity and holiness. But the Scrip
ture. which saith to the pure all things are pure.
repeats the same rule in other words s.As a
man thinketh so he Is "-Cinclnnati Commercial
Gazette.
Between the extreme mugwumps, who insist
that the President shall not appoint Democrat
to Office even when he finds Democrat COM
petent to succeed Republican whose term has
| expired and the extreme Bourbons who insist
| that he should bounce out every Republican,
term or no term, and competent Democrat or no
| competent Democrat. the President seems to be
| neither for Offices nor fine spun theories and
want only honest and efficient administration
| Philadelphia Times.
UNLESS our prisons are put upon the same
high plane foreign jails, unless prison birds
supplied with beer and allowed a larger
measure of idleness, we will not be able to draw
on the prison population of Europe. Men like
| Most will refuse to come to this country unless
| they are offered the nducement of free beer in
| prison. The experience of Most will be recited
abroad. and the professional Jail birds will re.
| main in Europe and allow this miserable coun
| try to go its mad pace to damnation II
| might solve the prison-labor problem to set
! prisoners to brewing beer for their own con.
| sumption. Milwaukee Sentinel